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Hibbly Cookie Policy: How Our Dating Site Uses Cookies
A clear explanation of how Hibbly uses cookies and similar technologies across our online dating platform.
Last updated: September 22, 2026
Hibbly Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how Hibbly ("we," "us" or "our") uses cookies and similar tracking technologies on our online dating platform at hibbly.net. Like most modern dating sites, we rely on a mix of essential and optional cookies to keep accounts secure, remember your preferences from the onboarding quiz, and understand which parts of the experience actually help people connect. This policy took effect on September 22, 2026, and works alongside our Privacy Policy, which provides fuller detail on how we collect, store and safeguard your information.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your browser or device when you visit. Cookies let a site remember who you are between page loads, so Hibbly can keep you signed in, recall your gender and preference selections from the onboarding quiz, and recognize your device on a return visit. Related technologies include tracking pixels - small transparent images embedded in pages or emails that confirm content was loaded - and local storage, which saves small pieces of data directly in your browser instead of sending them back to a server with every request.
Session Cookies
Session cookies exist only for the length of a single visit. Your browser deletes them automatically once you close the tab, and they typically handle short-lived tasks such as keeping your login active while you browse profiles.
Persistent Cookies
Persistent cookies remain on your device for a set period after you leave the site. They allow Hibbly to recognize returning visitors, remember display preferences, and support longer analytics and advertising measurement windows.
Types of Cookies We Use
Hibbly groups the cookies and similar technologies we use into four categories. Each row below states the general purpose of that category and what typically happens if you block it.
| Category | Purpose | If Disabled |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly Necessary | Keep you signed in, secure your session, and power core features like the onboarding quiz and private messaging. | Sign-in, profile browsing and matching are likely to stop working correctly. |
| Functional | Remember settings such as your search distance, notification choices and display preferences. | The site may forget your preferences each time you return and reset to defaults. |
| Analytics & Performance | Measure which pages and features members use, so we can improve how people find real matches. | The site still functions, but we have less insight into what is or isn't working well. |
| Advertising & Tracking | Measure the performance of ads that brought you to Hibbly and limit repeat exposure to the same ad. | Ads you see elsewhere will be less tailored to your interests; your Hibbly account is unaffected. |
How Hibbly Uses Cookies
Beyond the categories above, cookies do a handful of specific, practical jobs on our dating site:
- Keeping sessions secure: Session cookies help confirm that requests come from your signed-in device, which supports the account protections described in our Terms & Conditions and helps reduce the risk of a hijacked session.
- Remembering preferences: Storing the gender, preference and age-range answers you give during onboarding so your feed stays relevant.
- Measuring which pages convert: Understanding which pages and calls to action actually lead visitors to complete sign-up.
- Detecting fraudulent or automated activity: Flagging patterns consistent with bots or repeated fake sign-up attempts before they reach the match pool.
- Measuring advertising performance: Tracking which marketing channels bring genuine, engaged members rather than one-time clicks.
Third-Party and Advertising Cookies
Hibbly works with analytics and advertising partners who help us understand site performance and manage marketing campaigns. These partners may set their own cookies on your browser when you interact with our pages, and those cookies are governed by each partner's own privacy and cookie practices rather than this policy directly. Where a partner offers a consumer opt-out tool, you can generally use it - or your browser's ad-preference settings - to limit interest-based advertising across sites, though this will not stop all forms of advertising. For details on what categories of information we share with these partners and why, see the sharing section of our Privacy Policy.
Your Cookie Consent Rights Under GDPR and CCPA
Consent for EU/UK Visitors
If you access Hibbly from the European Union or United Kingdom, our cookie consent banner lets you accept or decline optional cookie categories before they are set, in line with applicable EU/UK data protection rules. Strictly necessary cookies do not require consent because the site cannot function without them.
Opt-Out Rights for California Residents
California residents have the right to opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information, which under the CCPA can include certain advertising-cookie activity. You can exercise this choice through the cookie settings presented on the site or by adjusting your browser's privacy controls, including recognized global privacy control signals where supported.
Withdrawing Consent
You can change your mind at any time. Revisiting your cookie preferences, clearing cookies in your browser, or adjusting device-level tracking permissions will withdraw consent previously given for optional cookie categories going forward.
Managing Cookies in Your Browser
Every major browser lets you view, block or delete cookies. The general steps are similar across desktop and mobile:
- Open your browser's privacy or settings menu (commonly labeled "Privacy and Security" or "Site Settings").
- Locate the cookie or site-data controls and choose to block third-party cookies, clear existing cookies, or block all cookies for specific sites.
- On mobile devices, similar controls usually live under your device's browser app settings or under system-level privacy settings.
- Reload Hibbly after changing settings so the new preferences take effect.
Disabling strictly necessary cookies may prevent sign-in, session security and matching features from working properly, so we recommend leaving that category enabled even if you limit others.
Do Not Track Signals
Some browsers offer a "Do Not Track" setting or send global privacy control signals indicating you don't want to be tracked across sites. There is currently no uniform industry standard for how sites must respond to these signals. Where legally required, we honor recognized opt-out and global privacy control signals for advertising-related cookies; outside of those specific obligations, Hibbly does not currently alter its cookie behavior based on a browser's Do Not Track header alone.
Updates to This Cookie Policy and Contact
We may update this Cookie Policy as our practices, technology or legal obligations change. When we do, we will revise the effective date at the top of this page, and material changes will be reflected the next time you visit. This page was last updated on September 22, 2026. If you have questions about our use of cookies, contact us at [email protected]. For related information, see our Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions, or return to the Hibbly homepage to keep browsing verified singles near you.
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